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You know, there are low-information politicians and then their are anti-gun low-information politicians. And then there's Kirstin R. Running Hyphen Marquardt. She was quoted by a local TV station as saying: "What this bill does, the bill before us, allows for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds to operate handguns. We do…

  Troy Industries has a new product line they want you to buy!  They showed it to my buddy Dan Zimmerman from The Truth About Guns and Dan posted it up today.   (Troy Industries) - A BattleAxTM for the 21st Century: the new TROY TomahawkTM Stock. The Tomahawk is…

    Rabidly anti-gun Democrat state Senator Leland Yee won't be serving in the California State Senate anytime soon, promoting more gun control. He'll probably be begging for some soap on a rope as he heads off to federal prison to serve his sentence for weapons trafficking and other corruption…

Florida puts armed violent criminals in prison for a long, long time.  Use a gun in a violent crime in Florida, you get an additional ten years added to your sentence.  There's no plea bargains, early release or probation.  You go away.  Discharge the gun and add twenty years to…

Fun.  Energy.  Excitement.  Action! All adjectives that describe vibrant Guns Save Life monthly gun rights meetings. Even better, grassroots gun rights is alive and well behind enemy lines in Chicagoland! Guns Save Life Chicago's meeting will happen this Sunday afternoon at our new meeting location in Orland Park, IL.  The…

  Chicago's Police Superintendent position has been vacant since Mayor Rahm Emanuel threw hard-drinking, skirt-chasing, street-light shooting Garry McCarthy under the bus to assuage the Mayor's critics on December 1st.  Sine the first of the year, crime has exploded in the city, with homicides and shootings running double or more…

Two legislative updates in one day. How about those apples? by Todd Vandermyde This past week we saw a flurry of activity at the capitol. Many new bills are being introduced, some good some bad.  It would seem that the President's call for gun control was taken to heart as…

Did you ever wonder why the original Million Mom March group folded abruptly about 15 years ago? They were registered as a 501c3 charity, but they engaged in not only political lobbying (which is a no-no), but they also endorsed political candidates.  When the IRS caught up to them, they…

We've had an open line of communication with Todd Vandermyde, the lead gun rights lobbyist in Illinois, since like forever.   We work very closely with him. You've noticed that we haven't posted much about the bills being introduced in the General Assembly, including the bill to ban most semi-autos.  There's…

Uber. You know them. They are the "ride sharing" company that prohibits its drivers and passengers from carrying firearms. Enter an Uber driver in Michigan who described himself as a "Progressive" leftist on Facebook.   Friday evening, into Saturday, he shot and killed random people between fares. UPDATE:  The link where…